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2. List of airports in the Bahamas - Wikipedia

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   The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an English-speaking country consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets. It is located at the north-east of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba , Hispaniola ( Dominican Republic and Haiti ) and the Caribbean Sea , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands ...

3. Lynden Pindling International Airport - Wikipedia

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   Lynden Pindling International Airport (IATA: NAS, ICAO: MYNN), formerly known as Nassau International Airport, is the largest airport in the Bahamas and the largest international gateway into the country. It is a hub for Bahamasair, Western Air, and Pineapple Air. The airport is located in western New Providence island near the capital city of ...

4. Grand Bahama Aux AF Airport - Wikipedia

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   Beginning in the early 1960s, it would also support NASA manned spaceflight operations for Project Mercury, Project Gemini, Project Apollo, and the initial stages of the Space Transportation System (STS) program, colloquially known as the Space Shuttle. The single runway airfield provided an aerial port for logistical and personnel support of ...

5. Space Shuttle Atlantis - Wikipedia

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   Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. [1] Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern ...

6. Space Shuttle abort modes - Wikipedia

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   Space Shuttle abort modes were procedures by which the nominal launch of the NASA Space Shuttle could be terminated. A pad abort occurred after ignition of the shuttle's main engines but prior to liftoff. An abort during ascent that would result in the orbiter returning to a runway or to an orbit lower than planned was called an "intact abort ...

7. STS-135 - Wikipedia

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   STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7) [3] was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. [4] [5] It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown.